Sep 27, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Montreal singer/songwriter Helena Deland is releasing a new album, Goodnight Summerland, on October 13 via Chivi Chivi. Now she has shared another new song from it, “Strawberry Moon,” via a music video featuring Deland performing the song on a rowboat at dusk. More

Aug 30, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Montreal singer/songwriter Helena Deland has announced a new album, Goodnight Summerland, and shared a new song from it, “Bright Green Vibrant Gray,” via a music video. More

Jun 02, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2023. It was a mixed collection of new songs this week, perhaps because Monday was a holiday, but there were some tracks we liked. More

Jun 02, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Montreal singer/songwriter Helena Deland is back with a new song, “Spring Bug.” She has also announced dates for her first North American headline tour. More

Feb 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Montréal’s Helena Deland has shared a self-directed video for her new single “Swimmer.” Deland has also announced tour dates for 2022 in which Andy Shauf and The Weather Station are set to be supporting acts. More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Apr 08, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Hildegard (Helena Deland and Ouri) have announced their debut self-titled album, which will be out on June 4 via Section1 (an imprint of Partisan). The two have also shared a self-directed video for a song from the album titled “Jour 1.” More

Mar 05, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a fairly quiet week on the news front, with President Joe Biden’s pandemic stimulus bill getting closer to passing in the Senate, but without a minimum wage hike. More

Mar 04, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Hildegard (the new duo between Montréal-based artists Helena Deland and Ouri) have shared their first song together, titled “Jour 2.” It is out now via section1, a newly formed label in partnership with Partisan. The duo is said to be releasing a new album some time later this year. More

Oct 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2020. We skipped Songs of the Week last week because we had other plans last Friday, so this week’s list covers two weeks worth of songs. More

Oct 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland is releasing her debut full-length album, Someone New, on October 16 via Luminelle Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, “Pale.” More

Sep 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2020. This week’s list is a supersized one, with 12 instead of 10 songs (and last week we only had eight), which is surprising considering Monday was the Labor Day holiday here in America, meaning few new songs were shared that day. More

Sep 08, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland is releasing her debut full-length album, Someone New, on October 16 via Luminelle Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, atmospheric slow-burner “Truth Nugget.” More

Aug 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland has already released a series of well received EPs and singles—including 2018’s two interconnected EPs, collectively titled From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. III & Vol. IV—but now she has announced her debut full-length album, Someone New, and shared a new song from it, title track “Someone New,” via a video for it. More

Jul 15, 2020 By Julian Roberts-Grmela

Helena Deland has shared a new single, “Lylz,” via Luminelle. It’s inspired by the relationship between early 20th century French composer Lili Boulanger (who died in 1918 at only 24) and her older sister, fellow composer Nadia Boulanger, who lived until she was 92 and continued to promote the legacy of her younger sister. The song is accompanied by a time-lapse video where candles made in the image of the Boulanger sisters slowly burn. More

Nov 12, 2018 By Helena Deland

Vision Quest is our recurring series where an artist writes about one of their music videos, from the concept to the execution. For this edition Montréal’s Helena Deland writes about her video for “Claudion.” More

Oct 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland released two interconnected EPs, collectively titled From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. III & Vol. IV, a couple of weeks back via Luminelle Recordings. Now she has shared a video for Vol. IV‘s “Claudion.” Bronwyn Ford directed the video, which features Deland doing a choreographed dance routine with her cousin, Claudia Picard-Deland. More

Sep 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In many instances an album’s strongest songs are shared before the album’s release. There were several albums released this week, however, that featured standout tracks that were not advance singles and so this week’s Songs of the Week features some of those, filtered in with other new singles released this week. More

Sep 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland is releasing two interconnected EPs, collectively titled From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. III & Vol. IV, on October 19 via Luminelle Recordings. More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week’s Songs of the Week is packed. Firstly boygenius, the new supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, released three songs this week and all were worthy of the list. Thus we decided to expand it from a Top 10 to a Top 12, so that 10 separate artists were still included, be even that wasn’t enough, so we added one more for an unlucky Top 13. More

Aug 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Montréal’s Helena Deland is releasing two interconnected EPs, collectively titled From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. III & Vol. IV, on October 19 via Luminelle Recordings. Previously she shared Vol. IV‘s “Claudion,” which was an honorable mention in our Songs of the Week list. Now she has shared the other track from Vol. IV, “Rise.” More

Jul 27, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

There was a trend this week for artists to share two songs at once, rather than just one. We saw it with Blood Orange, Trevor Powers, Elvis Costello, Jungle, Cornershop, and Fucked Up (and Pussy Riot released three songs this week). In cases where the artist made our main best songs list we tried to pick just one song, although that proved challenging with our #1. More